remex Latin · revision 31236

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la rēmus, la agō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈreː.mɛks]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɛː.meks]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rēmex''' ''m'' (genitive rēmigis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Symmachus has a genitive plural ''rēmigium''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[m|la|rēmus|t=oar]] and the root of [[m|la|agō|t=to drive]], [[ine-pro|*h₂eǵ-]], “one who drives the oar”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces ⟨rēmus⟩ to [[itc-pro|*rēsmo-|t=oar]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁reh₁-smo-|t=oar]], cognate with [[grc|ἐρετμόν|tr=eretmón|t=oar]], [[lt|ìrklas|t=oar]] and [[ang|rōwan|t=to row]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Plautus as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) with the ''Poenulus'' and ''Mercator''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an oarsman or rower, as in Plautus and Cicero, and in the singular is also used collectively for a ship's crew of rowers, as Virgil's Mnestheus who drives the swift ''Pristis'' “with a keen crew”, and Livy's state that could provide neither rowers to fill the fleet nor pay.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “rower”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a crew of rowers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|oarsman]], [[m|en|rower]], ''(collective singular)'' a crew of rowers.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[rēmigium]]

+ * [[rēmigō]]

+ * [[sēmirēmex]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rēmus]]

+ * [[nauta]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}